Mass killer Breivik believed he had licence to hunt traitors

Karen Kissane

OSLO: Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik had photographed himself with a badge proclaiming that he was a ''Marxist hunter'' and that he had a ''multicultural-traitor hunting permit - tagging not required, no bag limit'', Oslo District Court was told yesterday.

Prosecutor Sveinn Holden also said that Breivik had played the mission-based computer game World of Warcraft fulltime for a year in 2006-07 using the character name ''Justicor''.

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Breivik anxious to prove he's not insane

Norwegian killer Anders Breivik acknowledges killing 77 people last July, but says he carried out the massacre in self-defence.

Mr Holden was giving the opening address in Breivik's trial, which began yesterday.

Breivik, 33, is charged with terrorism offences relating to the killing of 77 people and the injuring of 33 in a bomb attack in central Oslo and a shooting massacre at a teenagers' summer camp on the Norwegian island of Utoya last July.

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One photograph in the video showed a blonde woman with a heavily bloodied face and the question, ''Has your daughter, sister or girlfriend experienced cultural enrichment by the Muslim community yet?''

Stirring music accompanied pictures of sword-wielding mediaeval Knights Templar and battle scenes from the Crusades. Text said the four principles underpinning action were ''strength, honour, sacrifice, martyrdom''.

Breivik told police he had been assigned the task of writing the manifesto by a group of militant nationalists, who called themselves modern Knights Templar, at their foundation meeting in London in 2010.

A cartoon in the video showed a woman in a burqa with her robe pulled back to expose that her seemingly pregnant belly was a huge bomb with a lit fuse

But Mr Holden said police believed Breivik had actually worked alone: ''In our opinion no such network exists.''

Mr Holden said Breivik had set up several failed companies but at one point ''generated considerable income'' with a business in which he sold fake university certificates over the internet. This allowed him to live off savings while he played World of Warcraft and later prepared for his attacks, Mr Holden said.

But Breivik ran out of money before he could complete his preparations and from April 2011 much of his spending was on one of his 11 credit cards, the court was told.

Breivik documented his making of the bomb and took photographs of the manufacturing area inside the barn of the farm he had rented 160 kilometres from Oslo.

Pictures show four kitchen blenders on a bench, used to crush ingredients, and a concrete mixer used to blend them, as well as the van in which he transported the bomb and the Fiat in which he left the scene.

After opening addresses by the prosecution and the defence Breivik is expected to give five days of evidence.

Earlier, Breivik said he refused to recognise the authority of the court as his trial opened.

''I don't recognise the legitimacy of this court, you have received your mandate from political parties that support multiculturalism,'' he said after raising his right arm in a salute to the court as his handcuffs were removed by police.